Jenny Korn
Jennifer S. Korn champions the voices of Americans on issues that affect their daily lives. Throughout her distinguished 20-year career, she has advised officials in government, politics, communications, and on policy campaigns ensuring the needs of Americans are heard.
Jennifer is currently Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for the White House Office of Public Liaison. This office is often referred to as the front door of the White House. In this role, Jennifer oversees the Administration’s effort to build and strengthen coalitions with constituencies across the country and work with them on issues such as trade, small business, immigration, criminal justice reform, and opportunity zones. Constituencies include Hispanics, veterans, faith leaders, law enforcement, and women. Jennifer also manages relationships between the President, Senior Officials, and constituents to communicate the Administration’s priorities and, more importantly, to listen to the concerns of constituents. Many of these discussions result in policy and legislative implementation.
Formerly, Jennifer served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Republican National Committee (RNC), managing the integration of Hispanic, African American, Asian Pacific Islander, veteran, and faith community engagement in the national political plan for the 2016 election. She successfully collaborated with the Presidential Campaign to implement this engagement effort, resulting in an increase among all coalition groups since 2012.
In the 2014 election cycle, Jennifer was responsible for spearheading a nationwide Hispanic engagement effort helping Republicans gain the majority in the U.S. Senate, and assisted with Gubernatorial and Congressional wins in CO, FL, NJ, CA, AZ, TX, NM, and NV resulting in historic gains of 40-52% of the Hispanic vote in key races.
Prior to her work at the RNC, Jennifer was the Executive Director of the Hispanic Leadership Network (HLN), a national organization that engages with the Hispanic community on center- right issues. HLN’s leadership included Governor Jeb Bush, Governor Brian Sandoval, and Senator Marco Rubio. In her role, she provided commentary on news outlets like Fox News and CNN.
Jennifer served in the George W. Bush Administration as Director of Hispanic and Women’s Affairs in the White House, as well as Senior Advisor to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to her public service, Jennifer was National Hispanic Director and Southwest Coalitions Director on President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. As such, she developed and implemented the strategy that resulted in President Bush receiving 44% of the Hispanic vote. Before moving to Washington, DC Jennifer spent years managing candidate and issue campaigns in California.
Jennifer was born in East Los Angeles. She is a U.S. Marine Corps spouse.